For me it’s PeppermintOS.

I started my Linux adventure a few years ago, and haven’t owned a Windows PC since.

I currently use Arch on my main rig, and I wanted to install Linux on two old laptops that I found laying around in my house

I then remembered the first distro I ever used, which is PeppermintOS, and I was amazed at the latest updates they released.

They even have a mini ISO now to do a net-install with no bloat, with a Debian or Devuan base.

Sadly, I believe the founder passed away a few years ago, which is why I was really happy to see the continuation of this amazing project.

  • aramus@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Whenever somebody recommends NixOS, I just want to spam the comments with Guix. I prefer configs I can understand, and I think lisp makes that easier. Other than syntax, the only thing I see is people complaining about the free-oftware-only. But the recently hyped distrobox solves that (together with the nonguix repo). Yet nobody recommends guix in all these “immutable” distro threads.

    In my opinion Guix is the best mix of:

    • Arch (rolling release),

    • NixOS (“immutable”, atomic updates , rollback, reproducible, declarative configs)

    • Gentoo (source code based, write your own package definitions for any source code you find),

    with some lispy syntax.

    • ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today
      1·
      11 months ago

      NixOS, and hopefully soon SnowflakeOS which makes it more approachable for more casual users.

      https://snowflakeos.org/

      Another user mentioned Guix, which I’d like to try soon to compare to NixOS.

      It’s hard to compete with how much there is in nixpkgs though… as much as I… a professional Haskell programmer… hate to acknowledge the realities of network effects.

    • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
      0·
      11 months ago

      I tried it once, and it was hella impressive, but I didn’t stick with it, I don’t know why. It just seems a little too much for me.

      • Alex@feddit.ro
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        11 months ago

        It kinda fucks up your FS (not in a data-loss way, but it gets really messy): it was showing 3.2TB… on a 509gb partition of a 1tb ssd. Heck, I only have 3TB in my whole PC